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...excited about the prospect. Its joint bid last year with U.S. Steel for Kryvorizhstal included $1.5 billion for a 93% stake in the plant, plus promised investment of $1.2 billion to raise production and improve quality. The offer was blocked on technical grounds that Mittal and others attacked as spurious. Now the company is hopeful it will win out. "If they do annul [the sale] and ask for bids again, we'd definitely be very, very interested," says the company's owner Lakshmi Mittal. He adds jokingly: "In fact, instead of going through a new process, this government should declare...
...letter’s allegations against Gross and Harris proved to be spurious. The copied passages do not appear in the two professors’ 2003 textbook, nor do they appear on the textbook’s official companion website, maintained by publisher Prentice Hall...
...origins of the cable are spurious to begin with—and so is the plaque’s claim that Evans’ appropriation of the cable is a modern statement on Duchamp’s ready-made movement. The idea of the ready-made is to take everyday objects out of their everyday contexts. But in this piece, Evans has already admitted to believing in the extraordinary origins of the cable. Once again—a self-righteous tribute to the not so exciting or insightful...
...column argued against a phantom—such that no one could possibly disagree with it. It’s easy for everyone to agree that a disaster would be bad, but for someone to try to take the high ground against a disaster that does not exist is spurious...
...Price of Spurious...